In these highlights from our conversations with incumbent Vallie Brown and challenger Dean Preston, you'll hear a lot about housing affordability. You can find full interviews with the candidates, as well as our interview with candidate Ryan Lam, at sfpublicpress.org/civic. We expect to be publishing an interview with candidate Nomvula O'Meara in the near future.

District 5 Supervisor candidate Ryan Lam, the youngest candidate in the race, on how he envisions better tenant protections might work, concerns about business taxes, and what could help address traffic deaths in the district.

District 5 Supervisor candidate and tenant advocate Dean Preston lays out his priorities for addressing housing affordability in San Francisco and looks back on his work as the founder of Tenants Together

District 5 Supervisor Vallie Brown, the incumbent running in November, talks about her work as a public servant, her vision for housing policy, and growing up living intermittently out of a van.

As the San Francisco Public Press’ celebrates 10 years of producing local investigative journalism, we peek inside to see what makes it tick. Reporter Kevin Stark unpacks his two projects on how sea level rise will affect coastal real estate development that continues to this day. Reporter Jeremy Adam Smith explains his investigations into segregation and funding inequality among San Francisco’s public schools. And the organization’s executive director and publisher tell how it all began.

On this edition of Civic: What San Francisco needs to consider to adapt to sea level rise, how citizen lobbyists are hoping to address climate change with a bipartisan federal carbon dividend, plus plans to reduce emissions from trucking and housing.

In What's New & What's Next, the Civic team offers a roundup of San Francisco news and a look at what's ahead on the city's calendar. This week: Youth strike for the climate, health workers shut down a commission meeting, the library ends fees and upcoming proposals regarding housing, the fire code, and hotel conversions.

On this edition of Civic: We hear how the Transit Riders are marking Transit Week in the city, and get reactions to a potential BART panhandling and busking ban.

In What's New & What's Next, the Civic team offers a roundup of San Francisco news and a look at what's ahead on the city's calendar. This week: State-level housing legislation passes the Senate, San Francisco transit setbacks, and what's coming up in terms of weekend events and at the next Board of Supervisors meeting.